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PODCAST| Angelo Acerbi interviews Jacopo Chessa, director of the Torino Short Film Market.

A tired but very happy Jacopo Chessa tells us the goals reached and the numbers attained in 2018 Torino Short Film market, in an edition filled with participants and awards and projects. Looking forward to next year’s already…

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PODCAST| Angelo Acerbi interviews Raffaella Delvecchio, international production manager of the Apulia Film Commission.

Raffaella Delvecchio tells us the activities and features of the Apulia Film Commission, and the importance of a market such as Focus. The Apulia Film Commission attends Focus under the umbrella of Italian Film Commissions Association, where the collaboration between film commissions is the key element for the success of all.

This interview was recorded during the 2018 Focus London, in partnership with the Italian Film Commissions Association and with the support of the Italian Trade Agency. To discover more about the Apulia Film Commission, click here.

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PODCAST| Angelo Acerbi interviews producer and director Raz Degan.

Raz Degan has built a serious career as documentary filmaker and producer; his last film the Last Shaman has been a hit on Netflix and touched a lot of people, profoundly. At 2018 Focus London, we talk with him of the importance of locations in documentaries and about the hard, often money-less but rewarding job of producing and directing documentaries.

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PODCAST| Angelo Acerbi interviews Truls Kontny, president of the European Film Commissions Association.

Truls Kontny talks with FRED Film Radio about the work developed by the European Film Commissions Association in these years, and the way to live through the singularity of each European country in terms of film production, facing US or Asian clients. Here is where synergy is the key word.

This interview was recorded during the 2018 Focus London.

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PODCAST| Angelo Acerbi interviews Raffaella Conti, member of the Toscana Film Commission.

Raffaella Conti of Toscana Film Commission explains the aims of the presence at Focus London 2018 and the mechanisms of the activities developed in her office to optimize visibility and productivity towards the film companies that want to shoot in Tuscany. Being part of the Italian Film Commissions association has been a boost for all members and re-positioned Italy as a whole ideal great location.

This interview was recorded during the 2018 Focus London, in partnership with the Italian Film Commissions Association and with the support of the Italian Trade Agency. To discover more about the Toscana Film Commission, click here.

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PODCAST| Angelo Acerbi interviews Paolo Manera, director of the Torino Piemonte Film Commission.

Paolo Manera, director of the Torino Piemonte Film Commission, tells us the structure of its funds, for features and documentaries and shorts, the collaborations with the Torino Film Lab, and the new ideas in funding developments of projects which are geographically based within the region.

This interview was recorded during the 2018 Focus London, in partnership with the Italian Film Commissions Association and with the support of the Italian Trade Agency. To discover more about the Torino Piemonte Film Commission, click here.

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PODCAST| Angelo Acerbi interviews Nevina Satta, director of the Sardegna Film Commission.

The energetic Nevina Satta, director of the Sardegna Film Commission, tells about the work to be done in a film commission on an island, that could be a big challenge but in the end turns out to be an advantage. Everything depends on the attitude and the quality of the services you provide. And she has a good record to prove it.

This interview was recorded during the 2018 Focus London, in partnership with the Italian Film Commissions Association and with the support of the Italian Trade Agency. To discover more about the Sardegna Film Commission, click here.

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PODCAST| Angelo Acerbi interviews Ines Moldavsky, director of the film Hana’s Last Day.

In Hana’s Last Day Ines Moldavsky tells the story of a girl that looks like her story: living a life she does not like, meeting men who are not worth and longing for a different life away from her country. She tells us the way she adapted part of her life to this film and the challenges to overcome.

Hana’s Last Day: Hana is a 31-years-old former Jewish orthodox girl, living in Jerusalem. She lost contact with her family since leaving the religious community, but her hopes of forgetting her past seem unattainable, as she is haunted by a dark family secret from her old life. Hana’s greatest dream is to obtain a European passport and emigrating from Israel. She works as a video editor for the news of a major Israeli channel, a job she deeply detests. Real news footage expressing the contemporary reality of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is interwoven with the plot, in the scenes at Hana’s workplace. As Hana’s wish of leaving Israel seems increasingly impossible, she drowns her sorrow in bingeeating attacks and casual Tinder sex. Hana is getting frantic and desperate, while the news show how the political situation in Israel getting worse. One day Hana decides to take a final, desperate attempt to take her life in her own hands, and of course it involves Tinder.

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PODCAST| Angelo Acerbi interviews Bogdan Muresanu, director of the film Emergency Exit.

Bogdan Muresanu tells us about his new project Emergency Exit, here at Torino Short Film Market; a film about a dark time in Romania, the end of the 80’s, that he decides to treat as a four-part story with a fair amount of irony and comedy, as as he says, sometimes in dark times humour is the only thing left.

Emergency Exit: At the end of the 80’s, Romania lived through dark times during which only humor remained for those who had lost all the rest: from dignity, abandoned in the endless queues, to the hope lost after decades of communism. Emergency Exit a film composed of four narrative parts, four personal histories that sometimes intersect, stories told with a humour with absurd nuances (as absurd as the whole system at that time), although in a realistic, almost documentary-like manner, in the sense that I will use archive images from that year. In fact, the film opens with pictures from the TVR archive, where a group of actors and extras are on the stage for the New Year’s show (which was never broadcast). Several characters appear in front of the camera and recite patriotic wishes for the leader. The camera, however, stops on one of the characters, at which point we will hear replies from the back.

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PODCAST| Angelo Acerbi interviews director Babak Jalali.

Babak Jalali was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Short Film 2006 for his short Heydar, An Afghan in Tehran. His first feature film Frontier Blues was developed at the 2007 Cannes Cinéfondation Residence, it premiered in competition at the 2009 Locarno Festival and won the FIPRESCI Award in New Directors at the 2010 San Francisco International Film Festival. In 2016, his second feature film Radio Dreams won the Hivos Tiger Award at the IFFR, received the Special Jury Mention at the Seattle International Film Festival and was awarded Best Director at the Andrei Tarkovsky Film Festival. His latest feature film Land was developed within Torino Film Lab’s FrameWork 2012 (now FeatureLab), where it won a TFL Production Award. It had its world premiere at Berlinale Panorama 2018.

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